The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared an abrupt reversal today of its Jan. 27 order to freeze trillions of dollars worth of Federal grant and loan program payments after the short-lived order created nearly universal confusion over and drew opposition from several states who successfully petitioned a Federal judge to block the order from taking effect.
The attempted freeze was set to take effect at 5 p.m. on Jan. 28 to ensure that government grant and loan programs were compliant with recent executive orders from President Trump.
A two-page memo sent out Monday night by OMB directed agencies to “complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their Federal financial assistance programs” to identify programs that could conflict with a string of executive orders issued by the president during his first week in office.
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